Home CPE choice

Thu Apr 1 00:39:36 UTC 2010

On 03/31/2010 04:03 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote:
> Given a marked lack of $significant funding for home routing, I rock
> BSD boxen all over.

Cool. I'm looking at pfsense to replace my cisco. I want to move the 
router to my lab for CCIE studies.
Have you tried pfsense, or do you find the built in 
functionality/configuration system to be sufficient? I've
only used bsd in an end user setting. The more I read, the more it seems 
that for software routing BSD is a
better packet pusher.

>   At one point we had several doing OSPF in my
> apartment (because we could)

Oh yeah. I hear that. :)

>   but I moved and am now behind a single
> Sun Netra ($30) with BSD, natd, and iptables. Works beautifully.
>    
Iptables on bsd? Not pf? Interesting. I'm pretty familiar with Iptables 
myself and have been wanting to
pickup pf. Can you dive into why you went with iptables instead of pf? 
Was it familiarity or functionality or...?

> If you're only interested in real routing hardware, I'd probably go
> with the low-end cisco SOHO stuff, or if you still have a 2600 sitting
> around and only roll DSL, that will work nicely.
>    

Right. I have a 2600 in my lab.